Darius Dave, chairman of the Omega Science Fiction Club, brings his great grandson from the year 2017 to address the club. Most of the club members think the time traveler is just a gag, but artist Jennie Rhine has gold-digging designs on Darius’s descendant.
Even as he spoke, there was a shimmering in the air next to him and a whining hum. The shimmering became the outline of a man—a tall man wearing silvery shorts and some sort of metalic hardness over his bronzed skin, with a heavy cloak thrown back from the shoulders.

Variants

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  1. “Time Out for Tomorrow” by Richard Wilson, in Science Fantasy, December 1957.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Richard Wilson